While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

Black tenants smell and attract vermin.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.

How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

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